Turbulence
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About the podcast
Turbulence is a podcast about the end of the American empire, or the end of the world—whichever comes first. Join Dylan Saba, M Ceniza, and friends as they navigate the geopolitical chaos of a world-system in flux.
Episodes 98
Episode 46: Palestine and the War Machine w/ James Crane
James Crane joins us to discuss how Palestine shaped Deleuze & Guattari’s philosophy, and what their concepts of minoritarian politics, the war machine, and lines of flight mean for the practice of …
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James Crane joins us to discuss how Palestine shaped Deleuze & Guattari’s philosophy, and what their concepts of minoritarian politics, the war machine, and lines of flight mean for the practice of revolutionary struggle.
James Crane is a PhD candidate working on post-Kantian philosophy and does research on early Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Crane is an editor at the Critical Theory Working Group, who you can find on almost all social media sites. They host bi-annual reading groups on Critical Theory, broadly understood. You can find some of Crane’s translations on his blog, Substudies, on Substack.
Works referenced: “The Indians of Palestine” (1982); “The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat” (1983); “Stones” (1988); “Spoilers of Peace” (1978); A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1980); Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972); Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975–1995; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (2010); Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970); The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013); “The Author as Producer” (1934)
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeBONUS: Trump’s Last Dance w/ Alexander Aviña
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss whether the GOP rout signals the end of the Trump era, how it shapes escalation scenarios in the Iran war, what …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss whether the GOP rout signals the end of the Trump era, how it shapes escalation scenarios in the Iran war, what it would mean for an electoral left to engage seriously with US decline, and the status of the Donroe Doctrine.
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Episode 45: Ethiopia at War w/ Hassan
Hassan joins us to discuss the making of the modern Ethiopian state, the revolutionary struggles that overthrew the monarchy and the Derg, the rise and fall of TPLF rule, and Abiy Ahmed’s drive toward another …
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Hassan joins us to discuss the making of the modern Ethiopian state, the revolutionary struggles that overthrew the monarchy and the Derg, the rise and fall of TPLF rule, and Abiy Ahmed’s drive toward another war with Eritrea.
Works mentioned: American Utopia
Acronym Guide:
TPLF — Tigray People’s Liberation Front: Former guerrilla movement that led the coalition governing Ethiopia from 1991 to 2018.
EPLF — Eritrean People’s Liberation Front: Movement that led Eritrea’s struggle for independence and took power in 1991.
ELF — Eritrean Liberation Front: Earlier Eritrean independence movement, eventually displaced by the EPLF.
EPRDF — Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front: TPLF-led ruling coalition that governed Ethiopia from 1991 until its dissolution in 2019.
EPRP — Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party: Marxist revolutionary organization that opposed the Derg military regime.
AESM (MEISON) — All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement: Marxist organization that initially supported the Derg before being violently suppressed.
OLF — Oromo Liberation Front: Oromo nationalist movement advocating self-determination.
OPDO — Oromo People’s Democratic Organization: Oromo constituent party of the EPRDF, later renamed the Oromo Democratic Party.
OLA — Oromo Liberation Army: Armed Oromo nationalist insurgent organization.
ONLF — Ogaden National Liberation Front: Somali nationalist movement seeking self-determination for Ethiopia’s Somali Region.
ENDF — Ethiopian National Defense Forces: Ethiopia’s federal military.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Researcher: KC
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeBONUS: Voting Booth Terror w/ Alexander Aviña and Salin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Lula’s victory in Brazil, Flavio’s exile in Miami, the results of the Israeli legislative elections, Bibi’s …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Lula’s victory in Brazil, Flavio’s exile in Miami, the results of the Israeli legislative elections, Bibi’s grand strategy, the Mecca Alliance in Tehran, and how UAE relates to the world-system.
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BONUS: The Making of a Global Civil War w/ Hassan
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the widening war in Sudan, the UAE’s destabilization campaigns, the convergence of conflicts across the Horn of …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the widening war in Sudan, the UAE’s destabilization campaigns, the convergence of conflicts across the Horn of Africa, and whether the disintegration of the international order is giving rise to a global civil war.
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BONUS: Bombard the Headquarters w/ Alexander Aviña
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Mamdani’s capitulation to the NYPD, Indigenous resistance to border militarization, Ansarallah’s war with Saudi …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Mamdani’s capitulation to the NYPD, Indigenous resistance to border militarization, Ansarallah’s war with Saudi Arabia, Trump’s Ukraine problem, and Erik Prince’s mercenary operations in Congo and Haiti.
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Episode 44: Haiti—State Against Nation, Part 2
We continue our discussion with Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper on the history of popular resistance in Haiti, the contradictions of the Aristide era, the PetroCaribe protests of 2018, and the current struggle for …
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We continue our discussion with Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper on the history of popular resistance in Haiti, the contradictions of the Aristide era, the PetroCaribe protests of 2018, and the current struggle for sovereignty from below.
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is an Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the director of the Center for Racial Justice at UCI. Dougé-Prosper’s work generally focuses on Black social movements. More specifically, her research centers around protest movements in 21st century Haiti. Dougé-Prosper has published in political magazines such as Black Agenda Report, LeftEast, Phenomenal World, Jacobin and NACLA as well as academic journals such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Kalfou, Small Axe, PoLAR and the Journal of Haitian Studies. She is completing her first manuscript titled Nation Against State: Development Contested in Occupied Haiti. Dougé-Prosper is currently a board member of Grassroots International. Between 2018 and 2024, she served as the coordinator of the Pan-African Solidarity Network with Community Movement Builders.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Researcher: KC
Mix: Jasper Saba
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeEpisode 43: Haiti — State Against Nation, Part 1
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper joins us to discuss the history of foreign intervention in Haiti, the political and economic origins of the country’s so-called gangs, and the centuries-long struggle between the Haitian …
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Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper joins us to discuss the history of foreign intervention in Haiti, the political and economic origins of the country’s so-called gangs, and the centuries-long struggle between the Haitian state and popular sovereignty.
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is an Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is also the director of the Center for Racial Justice at UCI. Dougé-Prosper’s work generally focuses on Black social movements. More specifically, her research centers around protest movements in 21st century Haiti. Dougé-Prosper has published in political magazines such as Black Agenda Report, LeftEast, Phenomenal World, Jacobin and NACLA as well as academic journals such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Kalfou, Small Axe, PoLAR and the Journal of Haitian Studies. She is completing her first manuscript titled Nation Against State: Development Contested in Occupied Haiti. Dougé-Prosper is currently a board member of Grassroots International. Between 2018 and 2024, she served as the coordinator of the Pan-African Solidarity Network with Community Movement Builders.
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Episode Guide:
* MINUSTAH — United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (2004–2017). Brazil-led UN peacekeeping mission established following the removal of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
* MINUJUSTH — United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (2017–2019). Successor to MINUSTAH, focused on policing and judicial institutions.
* BINUH — United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (2019–present). UN political mission supporting governance, security, and human rights.
* MSS — Multinational Security Support Mission (2024–2026). Kenya-led multinational security force authorized by the UN Security Council.
* GSF — Gang Suppression Force (2026–present). Multinational force authorized to combat armed groups in Haiti.
* FRAPH — Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti. Paramilitary organization implicated in repression following the 1991 coup against Aristide.
* PHTK — Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale. Political party associated with former presidents Michel Martelly and Jovenel Moïse.
* G9 — G9 an Fanmi e Alye (G9 Family and Allies). Armed-group coalition associated with Jimmy Chérizier (“Barbecue”).
* ALBA — Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America. Regional cooperation initiative established by Venezuela and Cuba.
* IMF — International Monetary Fund. International financial institution involved in Haiti’s economic restructuring.
* OAS — Organization of American States. Regional intergovernmental organization.
* HOPE — Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act. U.S. trade-preference legislation for Haitian apparel.
* HELP — Haiti Economic Lift Program Act. U.S. legislation expanding trade preferences for Haitian textiles and apparel.
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For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Researcher: KC
Mix: Jasper Saba
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeBONUS: Ansarallah on the Offensive w/ Barry
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the third anniversary of 10/7, the French school riots, Ansarallah’s continued offensive in Yemen, their use of …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the third anniversary of 10/7, the French school riots, Ansarallah’s continued offensive in Yemen, their use of FPV drones, the response from the Saudi-led “coalition,” and Iranian strikes on shipping in the Gulf.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
BONUS: October Surprise
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the upcoming Brazilian elections, US plans to invade Cuba, the end of the third (?) Iraq war, military escort …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the upcoming Brazilian elections, US plans to invade Cuba, the end of the third (?) Iraq war, military escort missions in Hormuz, the detention of migrant children in Texas, and Netanyahu’s pre-election gambits.
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BONUS: A Financial History of Zionism w/ Nathan Tankus
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comIn part two of our conversation with Nathan Tankus, we discuss the finance of settler colonialism—from the Ottoman …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comIn part two of our conversation with Nathan Tankus, we discuss the finance of settler colonialism—from the Ottoman Empire’s debt crisis to the foreign capital that financed Zionist settlement and facilitated Palestinian dispossession.
Nathan Tankus is a writer, researcher, and president of the publication Notes on the Crises. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Trump-Musk Payments Crisis: A 250-Year History, under contract with Viking Press. He is also the editor of We, Traitors: Bundist Writings on Zionism, Palestine, and Socialism, forthcoming from Haymarket.
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Full Bibliography for parts 1 and 2:
Beardsley Ruml, “Warm Springs Memorandum,” April 1, 1938, Box 1, Series II, Ruml Papers (University of Chicago Special Collections)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QX-moCOXe3sdIdb-D6nahgsZWDAP6gMe/view?usp=sharing
Collins, Robert M. The business response to Keynes, 1929–1964. Columbia University Press, 1981.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1krr_0HETyEGSS47b5tbNnd4yXf_Jciqi/view?usp=sharing
Blackstone, William E. “The Blackstone Memorial.” 1891. “To Show Kindness to Israel”: The Blackstone Memorial, Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives
https://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/docs/BlackstoneMemorial/intro.htm
Blackstone, William E. Jesus is Coming. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1898.
https://archive.org/details/JesusIsComing-raptureByWilliamW.e.b.Blackstone
Hudson, Michael. Super imperialism: The origin and fundamentals of US world dominance. Pluto Books, 2003 [1972].
https://www.crisesnotes.com/june2018manchesterspectrumofmonetarysovereignty/
https://www.crisesnotes.com/the-oil-market-is-a-conventional-wisdom-processor/
Sabbagh-Khoury, Areej. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist left and the making of the Palestinian Nakba. Stanford University Press, 2023.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c19cza2D0HpckCDmMUvamOVS2TnHIwYk/view?usp=sharing
Beirich, Eyshe, ed. We, Traitors: Bundist Writings on Palestine 1925–1938. Translated by Eyshe Beirich. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2027.
Parks, B. C., Zhang, S., Escobar, B., Walsh, K., Fedorochko, R., Vlasto, L., Zimmerman, J., Sickell, J., Bury, E., Joshi, A., Thome, L., Pandey, O., & Raja Manuri, V. P. R. 2025. Chasing China: Learning to Play by Beijing’s Global Lending Rules. Williamsburg, VA: AidData at William & Mary
https://docs.aiddata.org/reports/chasing-china/Chasing_China_Full_Report.pdf
“We are a rich Nation; we can afford to pay for security and prosperity without having to sacrifice our liberties into the bargain. In the first century of our republic we were short of capital, short of workers and short of industrial production, but we were rich, very rich in free land, and free timber and free mineral wealth. The Federal Government of those days rightly assumed the duty of promoting business and relieving depression by giving subsidies of land and other resources. Thus, from our earliest days we have had a tradition of substantial government help to our system of private enterprise. But today the Government no longer has vast tracts of rich land to give away and we have discovered, too, that we must spend large sums of money to conserve our land from further erosion and our forests from further depletion.”
Roosevelt, Franklin D. “April 14, 1938: Fireside Chat 12: On the Recession.” Miller Center, University of Virginia, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/april-14-1938-fireside-chat-12-recession
Herzl, Theodor. The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl. Edited by Raphael Patai, translated by Harry Zohn, vol. 1, Herzl Press / Thomas Yoseloff, 1960.
Herzl, Theodor. The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl. Edited by Raphael Patai, translated by Harry Zohn, vol. 2, Herzl Press / Thomas Yoseloff, 1960.
Herzl, Theodor. The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl. Edited by Raphael Patai, translated by Harry Zohn, vol. 3, Herzl Press / Thomas Yoseloff, 1960.
Portnoy, Samuel A., ed.. Vladimir Medem. The Life and the Soul of a Legendary Jewish Socialist. New York: Ktav, 1979.
Milgrim, Michael R. “An Overlooked Problem in Turkish–Russian Relations: The 1878 War Indemnity.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 9.4 (1978): 519-537.
Forstater, Mathew. “Taxation and primitive accumulation: the case of colonial Africa.” (2005).
Merrino, Serena. “Currency and settler colonialism: the Palestinian case.” Review of International Political Economy 28.6 (2021): 1729-1750.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09692290.2020.1803951
Darity Jr, William. “African American reparations, Keynes, and the transfer problem.” Keynes for the Twenty-First Century: The Continuing Relevance of the General Theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. 199-205.
Darity Jr, William A., and Andrea Kirsten Mullen. From here to equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the twenty-first century. UNC Press Books, 2022.
Episode 42: Dollar Imperialism w/ Nathan Tankus
Nathan Tankus joins us to discuss the monetary foundations of American empire, how sanctions weaponize the global financial system, the possibility of China-led de-dollarization, and what’s really going on with …
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Nathan Tankus joins us to discuss the monetary foundations of American empire, how sanctions weaponize the global financial system, the possibility of China-led de-dollarization, and what’s really going on with the oil futures market.
This is part one of a two part episode. Part two, A Financial History of Zionism, will be released later this week on our paid feed.
Works mentioned: A Spectrum Approach to Monetary Sovereignty and our Dollar World; Did the United States Really Invade Iraq Because it Started Pricing Oil in Euros?; Chasing China: Learning to Play by Beijing’s Global Lending Rules; The Oil Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor; Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire; The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
Nathan Tankus is a writer, researcher, and president of the publication Notes on the Crises. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Trump-Musk Payments Crisis: A 250-Year History, under contract with Viking Press. He is also the editor of We, Traitors: Bundist Writings on Zionism, Palestine, and Socialism, forthcoming from Haymarket.
Nathan has created a 70% off annual subscription discount for Turbulence listeners! Access here: https://www.crisesnotes.com/turbulence.
You can find Nathan on Bluesky or on Instagram.
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We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded.
For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world.
Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeBONUS: Operation Allah is Stronger in Might and More Severe in Punishment w/ Alexander Aviña and Barry
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comThis week we’re joined by returning co-host Alexander Aviña, as well as friend of the show Barry with the NED, to go in …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comThis week we’re joined by returning co-host Alexander Aviña, as well as friend of the show Barry with the NED, to go in depth on Ansarallah’s major ground offensive in Yemen, the downing of a Saudi F-15, and the US’s escalating violence in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
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For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world.
Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Episode 41: Mauritania at Europe’s Frontier w/ Hassan Ould Moctar
Hassan Ould Moctar joins us to discuss Europe’s externalized border regime, the colonial history of race and territory in Mauritania, and how migration control, counterinsurgency, and development policy have …
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Hassan Ould Moctar joins us to discuss Europe’s externalized border regime, the colonial history of race and territory in Mauritania, and how migration control, counterinsurgency, and development policy have fused across the Sahel.
Works mentioned: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania.
Hassan Ould Moctar is a Fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb, University of Tunis and former lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. His research focuses on the relationship between migration, borders, and development processes, with a regional focus on West and North Africa. He is the author of After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania, which is available open access from Bloomsbury Publishers.
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For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world.
Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Researcher: KC
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeBONUS: Houthi Takeover w/ Alexander Aviña
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the expanding conflict in Hormuz, Ansarallah’s lightning advance in Yemen, Trump’s oil problem, the surging …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the expanding conflict in Hormuz, Ansarallah’s lightning advance in Yemen, Trump’s oil problem, the surging anti-migrant right across the North Atlantic, and why Javier Milei is ratcheting up Argentine claims on Las Malvinas.
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For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world.
Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Episode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai Bosworth
Kai Bosworth joins us to discuss the strange politics of the data center revolt, the AI boom’s place in the global energy system, and what the rise and fall of the climate movement can teach us about the …
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Kai Bosworth joins us to discuss the strange politics of the data center revolt, the AI boom’s place in the global energy system, and what the rise and fall of the climate movement can teach us about the struggles taking shape in its wake.
Works mentioned: Where is the U.S. climate movement?, Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century, AI Data Center Development in Frackland, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, The Production of Space
Kai Bosworth is a geographer and political ecologist, and an Associate Professor at the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century. His current book project is provisionally entitled Protectors of the Subsurface: Militant Investigation and Critical Imagination in Anti-Oil Activism.
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For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Researcher: KC
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeBONUS: The Chud International w/ Alexander Aviña
We welcome Alex Aviña to Turbulence and discuss the Battle of Hormuz, Bessent’s economic D-Day for Iran, the US-Venezuela oil deal, the arrest of Fernando Cerimedo in Bolivia, and Trump’s war on the price of …
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We welcome Alex Aviña to Turbulence and discuss the Battle of Hormuz, Bessent’s economic D-Day for Iran, the US-Venezuela oil deal, the arrest of Fernando Cerimedo in Bolivia, and Trump’s war on the price of burger.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
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Josef Burton joins us to discuss the transformation of immigration under Trump, the bureaucrats who administer US machinery of repression, and what intensifying coercion at home and imperial retreat abroad mean …
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Josef Burton joins us to discuss the transformation of immigration under Trump, the bureaucrats who administer US machinery of repression, and what intensifying coercion at home and imperial retreat abroad mean for our political future.
Works mentioned: One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
Josef Burton is a writer and former US diplomat who worked mainly on consular and immigration issues. He tweets at @PinstripeBungle
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comIn part two of our double episode with Mujamma Haraket, we discuss the history of Hamas, the relationship between Hamas …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comIn part two of our double episode with Mujamma Haraket, we discuss the history of Hamas, the relationship between Hamas and the Palestinian left, and how various factions of the resistance are approaching the upcoming Palestinian legislative elections.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Episode 38: Militant Women w/ Arlene Eisen
Arlene Eisen joins us to discuss the transformations in the anti-war movement across the Vietnam War, the interrelation of feminism and anti-imperialism, and what decades of state repression can teach today’s …
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Arlene Eisen joins us to discuss the transformations in the anti-war movement across the Vietnam War, the interrelation of feminism and anti-imperialism, and what decades of state repression can teach today’s movements about security and survival.
Works mentioned: In the Worldwide Family of Militant Women
Arlene Eisen has been a militant in the struggle against imperialism since the 1960s—first as a protester facing tear gas and later as a teacher and writer. She edited The Movement newspaper, and was a leading voice in the anti-imperialist women’s movement of the 1970s. For the next half century, she joined the anti-apartheid movement, the movement for justice in Palestine, including the olive harvest in the West Bank, the struggle for the right to return to New Orleans after Katrina, the movements against fascist U.S. police and their deputized militias and against the holocaust in Gaza—always standing in solidarity with national liberation struggles both inside and outside the U.S. Empire.
She is the author of Women of Viet Nam, Women and Revolution in Viet Nam, and the influential report Operation Ghetto Storm, which documented police killings of Black people in the United States. Her latest book, In The Worldwide Family of Militant Women, is a social history and memoir of revolutionary movements from 1962 to 1982. You can find her work here.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeBONUS: The Pivot From Asia
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Iranian threats to strike Bulgaria, Russia supplying Iran with explosives and ammunition, the possibility of an …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Iranian threats to strike Bulgaria, Russia supplying Iran with explosives and ammunition, the possibility of an Israel-Turkiye war, and the US reducing its military footprint in the pacific. We also bid a fond farewell to our dear Séamus.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Episode 37: After the Flood w/ Mujamma Haraket
Mujamma Haraket joins us to discuss negotiations over Hamas’ disarmament, the collaborator militias in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya’s rise within Hamas, the movement’s evolving relationship with Ansarallah, and the …
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Mujamma Haraket joins us to discuss negotiations over Hamas’ disarmament, the collaborator militias in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya’s rise within Hamas, the movement’s evolving relationship with Ansarallah, and the future of Palestinian armed resistance.
Mujamma Haraket is a translator and academic researcher in political philosophy with a specialization in non-state actors, political Islam and the history of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribeEpisode 36: The Battle For South Arabia w/ Isa Blumi
Isa Blumi joins us to discuss Ansarallah’s renewed war with Saudi Arabia, whether pipelines can bypass Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, the Turkey-Saudi-Pakistan defense agreement, and the Gulf powers’ long campaign …
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Isa Blumi joins us to discuss Ansarallah’s renewed war with Saudi Arabia, whether pipelines can bypass Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, the Turkey-Saudi-Pakistan defense agreement, and the Gulf powers’ long campaign to subordinate Yemen.
Works mentioned: Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World.
Isa Blumi is Professor at Stockholm University within the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies from New York University (2005) and a Master of Political Science and Historical Studies from The New School for Social Research, New York (1995).
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss an Iran-Oman agreement over the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE’s expanding footprint across the African continent, a …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss an Iran-Oman agreement over the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE’s expanding footprint across the African continent, a horrific crisis at the Morocco-Spain border, and Trump’s saga with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
BONUS: Is it a World War?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss how the regional war has expanded north to the Caspian Sea and south to the Horn of Africa, Trump’s effort to …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss how the regional war has expanded north to the Caspian Sea and south to the Horn of Africa, Trump’s effort to break the oil market, a new Saudi coalition, Netanyahu’s visit to the US, and Lindsey Graham’s funeral.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Episode 35: All-American Empire w/ Aziz Rana
Aziz Rana joins us to discuss the Trump doctrine of foreign policy, the evolution of US hegemony since WW2, how the concept of freedom has animated American political thought and identity, and the challenge of …
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Aziz Rana joins us to discuss the Trump doctrine of foreign policy, the evolution of US hegemony since WW2, how the concept of freedom has animated American political thought and identity, and the challenge of political subjectivity.
Works mentioned: The Two Faces of American Freedom, The Constitutional Bind, Workshop on Internationalism and Relations with Liberation Struggles Around the World.
Aziz Rana is a professor of law and government at Boston College Law School, where his research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular, his work focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding. He is the author of two books: The Two Faces of American Freedom and his most recent book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Iran’s pummeling of US bases in Jordan, the rollout of “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon, Ansarallah’s blockade …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Iran’s pummeling of US bases in Jordan, the rollout of “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon, Ansarallah’s blockade of Saudi oil transits in the Red Sea, the US-Saudi nuclear agreement, and the status of Venezuela’s oil revenues.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
Episode 34: Black Bolsheviks w/ Hakim Adi
Hakim Adi joins us to discuss the Black radicals who shaped the Comintern, the Black Belt Thesis and the national question, Pan-Africanism through decolonization, and whether the Alliance of Sahel States is a …
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Hakim Adi joins us to discuss the Black radicals who shaped the Comintern, the Black Belt Thesis and the national question, Pan-Africanism through decolonization, and whether the Alliance of Sahel States is a path to African sovereignty.
Works mentioned: Pan-Africanism and Communism, Black Bolshevik, Africa Must Unite
Prof. Hakim Adi is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Professorial Research Associate at the Centre of Pan-African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Hakim was the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain. His most recent books are Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 (Africa World Press, 2013), Pan-Africanism: A History (1804 Books, 2023), and, as editor Black British History: New Perspectives (Zed, 2019), Black Voices on Britain (Macmillan, 2022) and Many Struggles: New Histories of African and Caribbean People in Britain (Pluto, 2023). His most recent publication, Africa and Caribbean People in Britain: A History (Allen Lane, 2023) was shortlisted for the prestigious Wolfson History Prize in Britain in September 2023.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the latest cycle of escalation between the US and Iran, the reopening of the Yemen front, ICE murders in Maine …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss the latest cycle of escalation between the US and Iran, the reopening of the Yemen front, ICE murders in Maine and Texas, the Trump administration’s latest attempts to crack down on the left, and Marco Rubio’s crusade against the ICC.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
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Episode 33: President Lindsey Graham w/ Matthew Petti
Matthew Petti joins us to discuss the crack-up within the Republican Party’s base over Gaza, Netanyahu’s plan to wind down US military aid, and what the US’s performance in the Iran War portends for the future …
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Matthew Petti joins us to discuss the crack-up within the Republican Party’s base over Gaza, Netanyahu’s plan to wind down US military aid, and what the US’s performance in the Iran War portends for the future of great power conflict.
Check out Matthew’s latest piece, published on Drop Site, here. You can read some of the other pieces mentioned in the interview here and here.
Matthew Petti is an assistant editor at Reason who covers U.S. national security policy and its interactions with American society and domestic politics. He has previously reported for the BBC (in Persian and English), The Intercept, The Daily Beast, New Lines, Responsible Statecraft, Middle East Eye, and The National Interest, among other publications.
You can find him on Substack and on X/Twitter.
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Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017)
Art: Vivek Venkatraman
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